Agricultural scientist M S Swaminathan has said that increasing farmers` income per hectare was as much of a concern as improving yield per hectare. "The National Farmer`s Policy is unique because it shifts focus from land to its tiller,"
The Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has registered one of its best ever production performances in February this year. The steel plant made 1,82,007 lakh tonne of Hot Metal in February 2010 by utilising 118.6 percent capacity whi
Judges would not be allowed to delay judgements beyond three months after conclusion of arguments, according to a proposed law which lays downs standards and accountability for members of the higher judiciary. The draft Judicial Sta
The entire opposition today got together and disrupted proceedings in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha over the government`s decision to raise prices of petrol and diesel, forcing two adjournments till 2 pm. Trouble started soon after
Acknowledging that the union government had its own pressures in increasing petrol and diesel prices, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, whose party DMK is a key UPA ally, today said it would persuade the centre to roll back the prices.
I mean, see how pumped up and eager to win they were against our “traditional rivals” on Sunday. When nobody gave them an even chance considering the wonderful things that have been happening to our hockey lately, they walloped Pakista
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said that the government would talk to its allies on the issue of fuel price hike but gave enough hints that a rollback would be difficult. Party sources said that Mukherjee briefed the Congre
It seems the success of the Manmohan Singh government’s flagship schemes like the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) and Indira Awas Yojna (IAY) have been felt not only in the country but abroad too. A high-lev
The MCD`s planned extensive sealing action against commercial establishments not paying conversion charges was deferred in some parts of the city today as traders lined up in large numbers to submit their dues. However, in other are
A tenant cannot be evicted if the original owners, for whose bonafide personal needs the rented premises is sought, subsequently die during pendency of the dispute, the Supreme Court has held. "While it is true that the right t
The government during 2009-10 is estimated to forego revenues of over Rs 5 lakh crore, which amounts to 50 percent of its annual expenditure due to various tax concessions given to the prop up the industry hit by the global financial turmoil.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will meet Congress MPs tomorrow and discuss the budget with them ahead of a Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) meeting on Wednesday. Though Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister Pranab
Notwithstanding its demand for rolling back fuel price hike, UPA key constituent DMK today said there was no question of pulling out of the alliance. "There is no question of DMK withdrawing its support (to UPA) or the alliance
The Yamuna Jiye Abhiyan (YJA) has requested the government to declare a stretch of the river Yamuna, from Panchnada till Allahabad, as a `River Dolphin Community Reserve`. In a letter to Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh, the
Babus and ministers are known for their penchant to attend international conferences at the drop of a hat. But it is not often that you hear of a babu flying out to foreign shores to attend a non-existent conference at the taxpayer’s cost.
Community policing would be extended to 100 more stations in Kerala this year as the police-citizen collaboration has helped control crime, according to state Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan. "Wherever the project was imple
As part of efforts to protect tigers, the government is setting up four new reserves in Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa for the endangered animal. In-principle approval has been accorded for the creation of the
Even as rural areas of Madhya Pradesh continue to reel under long load-shedding, Minister of State of Energy (Independent Charge) Rajendra Shukla is hopeful that the electricity crisis will become a thing of the past by 2013. "
Amid calls by various groups in Telangana to boycott the Justice B N Srikrishna Committee on the contentious statehood issue, the panel will visit Andhra Pradesh on Thursday and Friday to discuss with state government officials about infrastructur
NSCN-IM general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah today met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and is understood to have conveyed the seriousness of his outfit to find a lasting solution to the Nagaland issue. Muivah, who along with four othe
